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    "title": "Meta-History’s Dangerous Dream",
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    "abstract": "“Big History” and “meta-history” are grounded in an ancient lamentation over the segmentation of human existence, the alienation from an original sense of oneness.  In this paper I am doing my disciplinary duty by providing a deflating historical counterweight to the desire to overcome those last remaining obstacles on the path to a complete account. For me at least, the difficulties in reaching a complete account in a common language remain; nor am I persuaded that the difficulties are merely technical.  The difficulties are deeply engrained not just in modern disciplinary thought but in cognition as such.  Indeed, the very goal of a complete account in a common language seems to me to be based on a false view of disciplinary distinctions as well as a false understanding of what we ought to wish for, our real interests.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "History"
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            "first_name": "Geoffrey",
            "middle_name": "G",
            "last_name": "Harpham",
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            "institution": "National Humanities Center",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2011-03-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_accepted": "2011-03-22T07:00:00Z",
    "date_published": "2011-03-31T07:00:00Z",
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